Second place of £15 went to Doctor Who, complete with Tardis, while third was Postman Pat and his cat Jess.

Rob Sutton, chairman of the Moorpool Residents’ Association, said: “We’ve run the competition for a number of years and we get lots of entries.

“It is amazing the effort people go to making their scarecrows. We’ve never had such controversy and mystery, though.

“Maybe next year we’ll need some security on hand to guard the entrants.”

The Winnie the Pooh stories were created by British author A.A Milne and were first published in the 1920s. The classic books became a worldwide hit after Walt Disney turned them into animated feature films in the 1960s.